Animal-releasing device.



A. JUTTNER.

ANIMAL RELEASING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25. 1917.

Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

UNITED 8TATE PATENT @FFIQE.

AUGUST J'UTTNER, 0F SULLIVAN, WISCONSIN.

ANIMAL-RELEASING DEVICE. i

Application filed May 25, 1917.

Z 0 all 7mm it may concern:

lie it known that I, AUGUST JUTTNER, a citizen of Germany, residing at Sullivan, in the county of Jefferson and State of VVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Releasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in animal releasing devices and its prime ob ject is to provide means for normally holding a number of horses in a series of stalls in a stable and for simultaneously releasing them in time of necessity. lVith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary view in elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view of Fig. 2 with the movable parts in an altered position.

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view taken on line H of Fig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a similar view on line 55 of Fig. 4.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 denotes the manger wall in a stable and to the same in each stall I secure a plate 2 which carries the bearings 3 in which a rotary rod 4 is journaled. A sleeve 5 is carried by said rod 41 in each stall between the bearings 3, 3 and said sleeve is provided with a set screw 6 whereby it may be releasably secured to said rod 4. A lug 7 fast to the sleeve 5 is adapted, in one position of said sleeve, for cooperation with a finger 8, carried by said plate 2, to retain a hitching ring 9. When the device is in operative position the sleeve 5 is positioned as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with respect to the rod 1, the set screw 6 being disposed in the vertical plane of the said rod 4 and said screw is then forced into engagement with the said rod 4 to retain the sleeve 5 in fixed relation thereto. A horse may be hitched in any stall by fastening his halter strap, in the usual manner, to the said hitching ring 9 and the horse may,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

Serial No. 170,877.

obviously, be unhitched by unfastening his halter strap from that ring.

To either end of the stable I secure a boxing 10 having an elongated slot 11 in its front face and a handle 12 provided with a head or hand piece 18 is movably secured to the slotted face of said boxing, said handle having an angular terminal finger 11 extending through the said slot 11, and having the T-shaped pieces 15, 16 the heads of which are positioned inside the said boxing to prevent removal of the said handle, the piece 16 serving as a stop for engagement with the top of said boxing to limit the vertical movement of said handle. A pin 17 also carried by said handle and projected into said slot 11 is adapted for engagement with a. bar 18 fixedly carried by the said rod 4, the free end of said bar normally resting upon a block 19 carried by a spring arm 20 which is secured at one end by screws 21 to the said boxing, said spring arm being provided with a finger 22 adapted for frictional engagement with the finger 14L aforesaid.

In Fig. 4, full lines, the mechanism is shown in operative position and in dotted lines it is shown in inoperative position. In the operative position of the device the bar 18 will not rotate nor permit rotation of the rod 4. To rotate this rod and release the several rings 9 in the several stalls the handle 12 is depressed thus causing the finger 1 1 in engagement with the finger 22 to move the spring arm 20 toward the adjacent side of the boxing or into the position shown dotted. This will move the block 19 out of supporting engagement with the said bar 18 when the pin 17 engaging that bar will depress it thus rotating the rod 1. To reset the mechanism the operator opens the casing and raises the bar 18 into engagement again with the block 19 this movement will re-position the several sleeves 5 and lugs 7. Any sleeve 5 may be loosened from the rod 4: to permit any necessary movement to insert the ring 9 again, the set screw 6 is then tightened again.

What is claimed is 1. In an animal releasing device,arotary rod, a sectional ring-holding element having one section carried by said rod and movable thereby into and out of engagement with its other section, a bar fast to one end of said rotary rod, a resilient element yieldingly disposed in supporting .engagementwith one end of said bar, and manually operable means frictionally engaging said resilient element whereby the same may be moved out of engagement with saidbar, one element of said means then being adapted for engagement with said bar to move the same.

2. In an animal releasing device, a rotary rod, a sectional ring-holding element having one section carried by said rod and normally movable thereby into and out of .engagement with its other section, a bar fast to one end of said rotary rod, a spring arm yieldingly supporting one end of said bar, and manually operable means operatively associated with said spring arm whereby the same maybe moved out of supporting engagement with said bar, one element ofsaid means then being adapted for engagement with said bar to move the same.

3. In an animal releasing device, a rotary rod, a sectional ring-holding element having one section carried by said rod and normally movable thereby into and out of engagement with its other section, a bar fast to one end of said rotary rod, a spring arm, "a block carried by said spring arm and normally disposed in supporting engagement with one end of said bar, a finger carried by said spring arm, and means associated with said finger for moving the same to move said v spring arm and block out oi supportlng engagement with said bar, one element of said means then being adapted for engagement with said bar to move the same.

ing a slotted boxing, a rotary rod extending into said boxing, a sectional ring-holding element having one section carried by said rod and normally movable thereby into and out of engagement with its other section, a bar fast to one end of said rotary rod within said boxing, a spring arm within said boxing normally in supporting engagement with one end of said bar, a handle slidably connected to the slotted portion of said boxing, a finger for said handle operatively associated with said spring arm whereby movement of said handle in one direction will impart transverse movement to said spring arm,

and a pin carried by said handle for operative engagement with said bar.

5. In an animal releasing device, 7 a retary red, ring holding means, said means including a sleeve anda lug normally operatirel conneetedto said rod, a bar fast to one end of said rod, a spring arm yieldingly disposed in supporting engagement with one end of said bar, a sliding handle operatively engaging said spring arm whereby the same may be moved out of supporting engagement with said bar, and means carried by said sliding handle for engagement with said bar. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence o'ftwo subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST JUTTNEB.

Witnesses 7M. 0. BUTH, HENRY C. FRARY.

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